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INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCAL 
BOARDS 

AND EXCERPTS FROM RULES AND REGU¬ 
LATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT 

UNDER THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN HIM 
BY THETERMS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS 
TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT TO IN¬ 
CREASE TEMPORARILY THE MILITARY 
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

APPROVED MAY 18, 1917 



ISSUED BY THE 
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL 

(Form No. 17 ) 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1917 






NOTE. 

In advance of the publication of the regulations prescribed by the 
President, the following instructions and excerpts from those regula¬ 
tions are furnished local boards to enable them to proceed promptly 
and accurately to their organization and to take the first necessary 
preliminary step in the execution of the selective-service law. It is 
of the utmost importance that these instructions be most carefully 
and accurately followed. Requests for rulings or interpretations of 
these instructions should be addressed to the governor of the State 
and not to the office of the Provost Marshal General. 

( 2 ) 


D. of D. 

JUL 16 1917 


INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCAL BOARDS AND EXCERPTS FROM RULES AND 
REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT UNDER AUTHORITY 
VESTED IN HIM TO INCREASE TEMPORARILY THE MILITARY ESTAB¬ 
LISHMENT. 


INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCAL BOARDS. 

(For references to regulations see excerpt thereof beginning on p. 5.) 

1. As soon as practicable after a majority of the members of the 
board are notified of their appointment the board will meet and 
organize as provided in section 7 of the Regulations unless it shall 
happen that by that time a majority thereof shall not have taken 
the prescribed oath and signified their willingness to serve. If a 
majority shall not have qualified, that fact, with reasons therefor, 
shall be reported by the members who have qualified to the governor 
of the State, and the board shall not organize until further instruc¬ 
tions from the governor. 

2. Three copies of the blank form for the record of the first meet¬ 
ing is inclosed herewith, to be made out and mailed as prescribed in 
section 7 of the Regulations. 

3. As soon as the board has organized it will make the telegraphic 
report of organization prescribed in section 7 of the Regulations, 
using Form 203, inclosed herewith, and will mail to the governor 
the oaths of office and the acceptance of each of the members. 

4. As soon as the board has met and organized as provided in 
section 7 it will take possession of the registration cards as provided 
in section 8 of the Regulations. 

5. The board will then proceed to examine all registration cards 
received as prescribed in section 8 of the Regulations. 

6. When all cards have been examined and those cards that belong in 
the jurisdiction of some other board have been removed from the files 
as prescribed in section 8, and in no event later than three days after 
organization, the board shall proceed to number the cards and the 
copies thereof in red ink as prescribed in section 9 of the Regulations. 

7. As soon as the red ink numbers have been assigned, the cards 
and the copies will be carefully compared. Make absolutely sure— 

(a) That each copy bears the same red ink serial number as the 
card of which it is a copy; 

(b) That no two or more originals or two or more copies have the 
same serial number; 

( c ) That there are no breaks in the series. Each copy must be 
verified as to its accuracy by the words “ a true copy ” followed by 

105056—it (3) 



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the signature of one*of the members of the board, to be entered in 
the blank space at the bottom of the back of the copy of the card. 

8. If any serial number has to be changed it must be done by 
drawing ink lines through the original number and placing the 
substituted number in the lower left-hand corner above the diagonal 
line. No number shall be changed after the copies of the cards have 
been sent to the adjutant general of the State. 

9. While -the cards are being numbered the lists prescribed in 
section 10 of the Regulations shall be prepared and as soon as all 
cards and their copies have been numbered, the lists shall be dis¬ 
posed as prescribed in section 10, and the copies of the cards shall be 
properly prepared for shipment and sent by registered mail or 
express to the adjutant general of the State as prescribed in section 
9. Thereafter the daily lists required by section 10 will be retained, 
posted, offered for publication and mailed as prescribed in section 10. 

10. All cards should be numbered, the lists should be disposed 
and the copies of the cards sent to the adjutant general of the 
State within four days after the organization of the board. 

E. H. Crowder, 
Provost M arshal General . 


EXCERPT FROM RULES AND REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT UNDER 
AUTHORITY VESTED IN HIM TO INCREASE TEMPORARILY THE MILITARY ESTAB. 
LISHMENT. 


War Department, 
Washington, June 21, 1917. 

Under authority vested in him by the act of May 18, 1917, the PRESIDENT 
OF THE UNITED STATES prescribes the following Rules and Regulations 
and directs that they be published for the government of all concerned, and 
that they be strictly observed. 

Newton D. Baker, 

Secretary of War. 

[These rules and regulations may be modified at any time by the President.] 

Part A. 

LOCAL BOARDS. 

Section 1 . Provisions of the act of Congress authorizing the Pres¬ 
ident to create and establish local and district boards. 

Sec. 4. * * * The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to 

create and establish throughout the several States and subdivisions thereof 
and in the Territories and the District of Columbia local boards, and where, 
in his discretion, practicable and desirable, there shall be created and estab¬ 
lished one such local board in each county or similar subdivision in each 
State, and one for approximately each thirty thousand of population in each 
city of thirty thousand population or over, according to the last census taken 
or estimates furnished by the Bureau of Census of the Department of Com¬ 
merce. Such boards shall be oppointed by the President, and shall consist 
of three or more members, none of whom shall be connected with the Military 
Establishment, to be chosen from among the local authorities of such sub¬ 
divisions or from other citizens residing in the subdivision or area in which 
the respective boards will have jurisdiction under the rules and regulations 
prescribed by the President. Such boards shall have power within their respec¬ 
tive jurisdiction to hear and determine, subject to review as hereinafter pro¬ 
vided, all questions of exemption under this act, and all questions of or claims 
for including or discharging individuals or classes of individuals from the 
selective draft, which shall be made under rules and regulations prescribed 
by the President, except any and every question or claim for including or ex¬ 
cluding or discharging persons or classes of persons from the selective draft 
under the provisions of this act authorizing the President to exclude or dis¬ 
charge from the selective draft “ Persons engaged in industries, including 
agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the Military Estab¬ 
lishment, or the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance 
of national interest during the emergency.” 

The President is hereby authorized to establish additional boards, one in each 
Federal judicial district of the United States, consisting of such number of 
citizens, not connected with the Military Establishment, as the President may 

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determine, who shall be appointed by the President. The President is hereby 
authorized, in his discretion, to establish more than one such board in any 
Federal judicial district of the United States, or to establish one such board 
having jurisdiction of an area extending into more than one Federal judicial 
district. 

Such district boards shall review on appeal and affirm, modify, or reverse 
any decision of any local board having jurisdiction in the area in which any 
such district board has jurisdiction under the rules and regulations pre¬ 
scribed by the President. Such district boards shall have exclusive original 
jurisdiction within their respective areas to hear and determine all questions 
or claims for inclutling or excluding or discharging persons or classes of per¬ 
sons from the selective draft, under the provisions of this act, not included 
within the original jurisdiction of such local boards. 

The decisions of such district boards shall be final except that, in accord¬ 
ance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, he may 
affirm, modify, or reverse any such decision. 

Any vacancy in any such local board or district board shall be filled by the 
President, and any member of any such local board or district board may be 
removed and another appointed in his place by the President, whenever he 
considers that the interest of the Nation demands it. 

The President shall,make rules and regulations governing the organization 
and procedure of such local boards and district boards, and providing for 
and governing appeals from such local boards to such district boards, and 
reviews of the decisions of any local board by the district board having 
jurisdiction, and determining and prescribing the several areas in which 
the respective local boards and district boards shall have jurisdiction, and 
all other rules and regulations necessary to carry out the terms and provi¬ 
sions of this section, and shall provide for the issuance of certificates of 
exemption, or partial or limited exemptions, and for a system to exclude and 
discharge individuals from selective draft. 

Sec. 2. Local boards — (a) In counties. — There shall be and hereby 
is created and established, as authorized by the terms of said act of 
Congress, a local board in each county (in each parish of the State of 
Louisiana) of the several States of the United States, except as 
otherwise provided by these rules and regulations. 

Each local board shall have exclusive jurisdiction in its respective 
county in respect of all persons who registered with a registrar or 
board of registration therein, or registered thereafter with the local 
board therein as hereinafter provided; and in respect of any person 
whose registration card, in accordance with the regulations herein¬ 
after prescribed, is delivered to and remains in the possession of such 
local board, when the order in which such person is liable to be called 
for military service is determined by such local board. 

Each local board shall have jurisdiction in its respective area, in 
respect of all such persons, of all questions to be heard and deter¬ 
mined therein by a local board, under the terms of said act of Con¬ 
gress and the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. 

In any county of any State, having over 45,000 population, ex¬ 
clusive of the population of the cities therein of 30,000 population or 


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over, there may be created and established, whenever in the discre¬ 
tion of the President it is deemed desirable, more than one local 
board. 

In the event that more than one local board is so established in any 
such county, each local board therein shall have, possess, and exercise 
like jurisdiction, duties, powers, and authority within the respective 
areas designated for each of said local boards in respect of all per¬ 
sons who registered with a registrar or board of registration therein, 
or registered thereafter with the local board therein as hereinafter 
provided; and in respect of any person whose registration card, in 
accordance with the regulations hereinafter prescribed, is delivered 
to and remains in the possession of the respective local boards when 
the order in which such person is liable to be called for military 
service is determined by such local board, as in the case of one local 
board in a county. 

In the event that more than one local board is created and estab¬ 
lished within such a county, each local board shall take, as near as 
practicable, into its possession, as hereinafter provided, the registra¬ 
tion cards of all persons who registered within the areas designated 
foi* the respective local boards in such county. 

In case, however, exact distribution of the registration cards is not 
so made, the local board exercising jurisdiction in any part of such a 
county upon receiving, as hereinafter provided by these regulations, 
and having in its possession, when the order in which such person is 
liable to be called for military service is determined by such local 
board, the registration card of any person registered in any part 
of such county shall have, possess, and exercise like jurisdiction, 
duties, powers, and authority, in respect of any such person, as in 
the case of a person who registered in the area in which such local 
board has jurisdiction. 

(b) In States having no county administrative organizations and 
in Territories. —In the following States, viz. Massachusetts, Connec¬ 
ticut, and Rhode Island, in which it is not deemed practicable and 
desirable to create and establish a local board in each county, and 
in the several Territories, there shall be and hereby is created and 
established, as authorized by the terms of said act of Congress, a 
local board, in divisions, of each of the above-enumerated States 
and of each of the several Territories, containing approximately 
(exclusive of cities of 30,000 population or over) a population of 
30,000 each. 

The divisions of such States and Territories will be hereafter desig¬ 
nated, and when designated the local board in each such division 
shall have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of all persons who regis¬ 
tered with a registrar or board of registration therein, or registered 


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thereafter with the local board therein as hereinafter provided; and 
in respect of any person whose registration card, in accordance with 
the regulations hereinafter prescribed, is delivered to and remains in 
the possession of the respective local boards when the order in which 
such person is liable to be called for military service is determined 
by such local boards. 

Each such local board shall have jurisdiction in its respective area, 
in respect of all such persons, of all questions to be heard and deter¬ 
mined by a local board therein, under the terms of said act of Con¬ 
gress and the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. 

Each such local board shall have exclusive authority to do and 
perform, in respect of such persons, all other acts therein authorized 
by said act of Congress or by the rules and regulations prescribed 
by the President to be done or performed by a local board therein 
as in the case of a local board in a county. 

A local board in a county or in such a division of any State or 
Territory containing any city having 30,000 population or over shall 
not have or exercise any jurisdiction, power, or authority in the 
area in any such city. 

(<?) In cities of 30ft00 population or over. —There shall be and 
hereby is created and established, as authorized by the terms of said 
act of Congress, a local board for approximately each 30,000 of 
population in each city of 30,000 population or over, designated by 
the President, in the United States and in the Territories. The Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia shall be regarded and considered as one city. 

Each local board in such cities shall have like jurisdiction, duties, 
powers, and authority as in the case of a local board in a county, 
within the area to be designated for the respective local boards 
therein, in respect of all persons who registered with a registrar or 
board of registration therein, or registered thereafter with the local 
board as hereinafter provided; and in respect of any person whose 
registration card, in accordance with the regulations hereinafter pre¬ 
scribed, is delivered to and remains in the possession of the respec¬ 
tive local boards when the order in which such person is liable to 
be called for military service is determined by such local board. 

In dividing any such city into areas, each containing approxi¬ 
mately 30,000 population, the divisions shall, so far as practicable, 
correspond with the divisions, if heretofore made, for the purpose 
of the registration under the terms of said act of Congress and the 
rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Thereupon each 
local board shall take, as near as practicable, into its possession, as 
hereinafter provided, the registration cards of all persons who reg¬ 
istered within the areas designated for the respective local boards 
in any such cit} 7 . 


9 


In case, however, such divisions in any such city do not correspond 
with the divisions previously made for the purpose of registration 
and exact distribution of the registration cards is not so made, the 
local board exercising jurisdiction in any division of such a city, upon 
receiving, as hereinafter provided by these regulations, and having 
in its possession, when the order in which such person is liable to 
be called for military service is determined by such local board, the 
registration card of any person registered in any part of such a city, 
shall have, possess, and exercise like jurisdiction, duties, powers, and 
authority in respect of any such person, as in the case of a person 
who registered in the division of such a city in which such local board 
has jurisdiction. 

Sec. 3. Designations of local boards. — Local boards having juris¬ 
diction in a county shall be designated and known as the Local Board 
for the County of-, State of-. 

Should there be more than one local board established in any 
county, the several local boards therein shall be designated and known 

as Local Board No. 1 or No. 2, and so on, for the County of-, 

State of-. 

In the case of a State, such as Massachusetts, which is divided into 
divisions, such divisions shall be designated and known as Division 
No. 1, Division No. 2, and so on, and the local board in each of such 
divisions shall be designated and known as the Local Board for 
Division No. 1 or No. 2, and so on, State of-. 

In the case of any city of 30,000 population or over, in which there 
is but one local board, such local board shall be designated and 
known as the Local Board for the City of-, State of-. 

In the case of any such city which is divided into more than one 
division, the respective divisions thereof shall be designated and 
known as Division No. 1, No. 2, and so on, and the several local boards 
in such divisions shall be designated and known as the Local Board 
for Division No. 1 or No. 2, and so on, City of-, State of-. 

All certificates, reports, and records of such local boards shall bear 
upon their face the proper designation as above prescribed. 

Sec. 4. The qualifications for members of local boards. —Each local 
board shall consist of three members, appointed by the President, one 
of whom, where practicable or desirable in the discretion of the Presi¬ 
dent, shall be a licensed physician; provided, however, in his discre¬ 
tion, where advisable, the President may increase the membership of 
any local board. 

The members of local boards must be citizens of the United States 
and must reside in the subdivision or area in which the local board, 
of which any person is appointed a member, has jurisdiction; and 
no person shall be appointed or act as a member of a local board who 
is connected with the Military Establishment of the United States. 











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Sec. 5. Power to fill vacancies in any local board. —Section 4 of 
said act of Congress provides that “ any vacancy in any such local 
board or district board shall be filled by the President and any mem¬ 
ber of any such local board or district board may be removed and 
another appointed in his place by the President whenever he consid¬ 
ers that the interest of the Nation demands it.” 

Sec. 6. Duty of members to notify Provost Marshal General and 
governor , or in cities of S0f)00 population or over the mayor , of re¬ 
fusal to act or resignation. —Any person appointed a member of a 
local board who refuses to accept such appointment, or any member of 
a local board who resigns as a member thereof, shall promptly notify 
by telegraph the governor of his State, Territory, or the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as the case may be 
(except in case such a person is appointed a member, or is a mem¬ 
ber, of a local board in a city of 30,000 population or over, when 
he shall promptly notify the mayor of his city instead of the gov¬ 
ernor of his State), of his refusal to accept the appointment or of 
his resignation. It shall be the duty of the other members of such 
a local board to likewise notify the governor or commissioners or 
mayor, as the case may be, of such refusal of a person to accept 
the appointment or of such resignation, or of any vacancy. 

Upon receiving notice of any such refusal, resignation, or vacancy, 
it shall become the duty of the mayor to notify the governor thereof. 
The governor or commissioners, as the case may be, shall report by 
telegraph any such refusal, resignation, or vacancy brought to his 
knowledge to the Provost Marshal General in Washington, together 
with the name or names of a person or persons recommended to be 
appointed by the President to fill any such vacancy or vacancies. 

In the case of cities of 30,000 population or over the governor may, 
in his discretion, consult the mayors of such cities and obtain from 
them the names of nominees for appointment to fill vacancies in the 
membership of the local boards in their respective cities. 

Sec. 7. Organization of local boards. —Five days after a day to be 
hereafter fixed by the Provost Marshal General and communicated 
to the respective local boards by the Provost Marshal General or by 
the governors or commissioners, as the case may be, or as soon there¬ 
after as practicable, the persons who have been appointed members 
of a local board shall convene in their respective jurisdictions in 
the place formerly occupied by the registration board in that juris¬ 
diction, or in such other place within the jurisdiction of such local 
board as the majority thereof may designate. 

No organization of a local board shall be made until at least a 
majority of the members have been appointed and are ready and 
willing to serve, and shall have taken the prescribed oath. 

The members of each local board shall take the following oath: 


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I, --, having been appointed a member of the local board 

for - (county, division, or city, giving exact official designation of local 

board), State of -, under the terms of the act of Congress approved 

May 18, 1917, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend 
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domes¬ 
tic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this 
obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and 
that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which 
I am about to enter; so help me God. 


Sworn to and subscribed before me, at —-, this - day of 

191— 


A majority of each local board shall constitute a quorum for the 
transaction of business, and a majority of those present at any meet¬ 
ing may decide any question before such board for decision. If, in 
the case of a board consisting of three members, any two members 
are unable to agree, the matter upon which they disagree shall be 
sumbitted to the board when all three members are present, in 
which case the vote of any two shall decide. 

If the sheriff of a county is a member of the local board therein, 
he shall act as chairman and executive officer of such local board. 
If the sheriff is not a member, the board shall choose one of its 
members to be the chairman and executive officer. If one member 
of the board is a licensed physician, he shall act as examining phy¬ 
sician of the local board, and a member shall be chosen by the board 
to act as clerk of such board. In the case of a local board having 
no licensed physician as one of its members, such board shall ap¬ 
point a licensed physician, designated by the governor of the State 
or Territory or by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
as the case may be, to act as the examining physician of such local 
board. 

In case the governor of any State or Territory or the Commis¬ 
sioners of the District of Columbia so desire, a licensed physician 
may be designated to act as examining physician of a local board of 
which a licensed physician is a member, and such examining phy¬ 
sician so designated shall be appointed by such local board to act as 
the examining physician of such local board. 

A record of the meeting at which each local board is organized 
shall be made on a form prepared by the Provost Marshal General 
and furnished the local boards for that purpose. The record of 
such meeting as entered on such form must state the time and place 
of such meeting, the names of at least a majority of such local board 
and recite that they were personally present at such meeting, and 
recite the election of a chairman and executive officer and clerk. The 













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record of sucli meeting must be signed by the chairman and clerk, 
respectively, of such local board. One copy of such record shall be 
retained by the local board and one copy thereof mailed to the 
governor of the State, Territory, or the Commissioners of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, as the case may be. 

The clerk of each local board shall, immediately after such organi¬ 
zation, report by telegraph to the governor of his State or Territory 
that the organization of the board has been completed. The gov¬ 
ernor of each State or Territory shall report to the Provost Marshal 
General in Washington by telegraph the progress of the organiza¬ 
tion of local boards in his State or Territory. 

The meetings of a local board, except adjourned meetings, shall 
be held after one day’s notice posted in the office of said local board 
and mailed by registered mail to the other members of the board 
at their places of residence by the clerk or by the chairman in the 
absence or refusal of the clerk to act. The meetings of a local board 
may be adjourned from time to time, and in such cases meetings 
may be held without notice to the members thereof other than the 
notice at the time of adjournment to those present. 

Local boards may make rules of procedure not inconsistent with 
said act of Congress or with these rules and regulations. 

Sec. 8. Local boards to take possession of registration cards .— 
Upon the completion of the organization of a local board the chair¬ 
man and clerk thereof shall at once demand and take into their pos¬ 
session all the registration cards and all copies thereof and records 
in connection therewith in the possession of any board of registra¬ 
tion, or of any other person or persons having possession of regis¬ 
tration cards filed within the area in which the respective local boards 
have jurisdiction. 

Upon demand being made by the chairman and clerk of a local 
board for such registration cards, copies, and records in the possession 
of any board of registration, or of any other person or persons, it 
shall become and be the duty of the members of such board of regis¬ 
tration, or of any other person or persons having possession thereof, 
to immediately deliver or cause to be delivered to such local board 
all such registration cards, copies, and records. Failure so to do will 
incur the penalty in such case made and provided by the laws of 
the United States. 

The functions of each board of registration, after delivering all 
the registration cards, copies, and records in its possession to the 
local board having jurisdiction, shall thereupon cease and terminate, 
and thereafter the local boards shall within their respective juris¬ 
dictions perform all the duties and acts remaining to be performed 
by a board of registration within its jurisdiction under the terms and 
provisions of said act of Congress and under the rules and regula¬ 
tions prescribed by the President. 


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Upon receiving such registration cards it shall be the duty of a 
local board to at once carefully examine them for the purpose of 
ascertaining whether any registration card received by such local 
board was filed within the area of some other local board. If any 
registration card shall be received by a local board that was not 
filed within the area of such local board, such registration card, 
together with the copy thereof, shall at once be delivered in person, 
if practicable, or, if not practicable, then by registered mail to the 
local board having jurisdiction in the area in which such registration 
card was filed. 

It shall be the duty of each person registered to examine the 
lists hereafter required to be posted to ascertain whether his regis¬ 
tration card is in the possession of the local board exercising juris¬ 
diction in the area in which the person registered, and to call any 
error to the attention of the local board. 

In case, however, the registration card of any person is not deliv¬ 
ered to the local board exercising jurisdiction in the area in which 
such registration card was filed, when the order in which such person 
is liable to be called for military service is determined by such local 
board, the local board for any county or any division of a county, any 
city or any division of a city, or any division of a State or Territory, 
having the registration card of any person registered in any part of 
the State or Territory in which such local board has jurisdiction, in 
its possession, when the order in which such person is liable to be 
called for military service is determined by such local board, shall 
have, possess, and exercise like jurisdiction, duties, powers, and au¬ 
thority in respect of any person whose registration card is then in 
its possession as though such person had registered within the area 
in which such local board exercises jurisdiction. 

Sec. 9. Duty of local boards to number registration cards .— 
Immediately upon its organization, and, if practicable, within three 
days thereafter, each local board shall number each and every regis¬ 
tration card then in its possession, beginning with number 1 and 
continuing consecutively until all registration cards are numbered. 
These numbers shall be known as “serial numbers” and must be 
entered on the face of each registration card in red ink between the 
words “ Form 1 ” occurring at the left-hand top of the card, and 
the words “Registration card.” The local board will at the same 
time give the same “ serial number ” to the corresponding copy of 
each registration card which it numbers. 

The registration cards should not, for the purpose of assigning 
such “serial numbers,” be alphabetically arranged, but must be 
serially numbered without regard to the alphabetical arrangement 
of such registration cards. 


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As additional registration cards are thereafter received or made 
out by any local board, such cards shall be given a “ serial number ” 
in exactly the manner used in numbering the other registration cards. 
Such additional cards shall be numbered consecutively in the order 
in which they are received or made out. The first of such additional 
cards so recevied or made out shall bear the “serial number,” next 
following the last “ serial number ” placed upon a registration card 
received from the registration officers; and other or additional cards 
received or made out thereafter shall bear the numbers next follow¬ 
ing this number in consecutive, numerical order. 

In case any local board has in its possession any registration cards 
of which it has not copies it will immediately make such copies and 
will give to each of them the “ serial number ” which corresponds to 
the registration card of which it is a copy. The blank forms (Form 
1) for such copies will be furnished by the governor of each State, 
Territory, or by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as 
the case may be. 

When a local board has a copy of each card with its proper “ serial 
number ” thereon in its possession the clerk of the local board shall 
at once forward such copies by express or registered mail to the ad¬ 
jutant general of his State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, 
as the case may be, who will hold them for further instructions. In 
the case of cities of 30,000 population or over, however, the clerk of 
each local board will forward such copies so named to the mayor of 
his city, who will in turn forward them to the adjutant general of 
his State, to be held as in the case of copies of registration cards 
received directly from the clerks of local boards. 

Each local board shall verify as to its accuracy each copy of each 
registration card so forwarded, by the signature of one of the mem¬ 
bers of the local board. 

The local board shall make a like copy, so verified, of each and 
every other additional card thereafter received or made out by it 
as the same is by it received or made out, and the clerk of each local 
board shall immediately and from day to day forward such copies 
of such additional cards to the adjutant general of his State, Terri¬ 
tory, or to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as the 
case may be, or the mayor of his city as hereinbefore provided. 

Sec. 10l Local board to make and post lists of persons whose 
registration cards are in its possession. —Concurrently with the num¬ 
bering of the registration cards as above provided each local board 
must prepare four duplicate lists of the names of all persons whose 
registration cards are in the possession of such local board. Such 
lists must contain the names of all such persons arranged in the 
order of their consecutive “serial numbers”—that is, the number 
in red ink on their respective registration cards—beginning with 
No. 1. 


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The local board shall retain one copy of such list. It shall, imme¬ 
diately upon completion of the list, post one copy in a conspicuous 
place, accessible to the public view, in the office of the local board; 
it shall at the same time make one copy accessible, in the office of 
the local board, to the press, with a request for publication; and 
the clerk of the local board shall send one copy at the same time by 
registered mail to the Provost Marshal General in Washington. 

Each local board must thereafter daily prepare in the same man¬ 
ner four duplicate lists of the names of all persons whose registra¬ 
tion cards are thereafter received or made out by it each day, and 
the name of each person on such lists must be given its a serial num¬ 
ber” in the manner hereinbefore provided; and each local board 
must daily retain, post, offer for publication, and mail copies of such 
additional lists so containing itlie “ serial numbers ” as above provided. 

Sec. 11. Provisions of said act of Congress authorizing the Presi¬ 
dent to draft certain military forces and to make regulations there¬ 
for. —Said act of Congress authorizes the President to raise by draft 
certain military forces therein enumerated, and section 2 of said act 
provides that: 

* * * all other forces hereby authorized, except as provided in the 

seventh paragraph of section one, shall be raised and maintained by selective 
draft exclusively; but this provision shall not prevent the transfer to any 
force of training cadres from other forces. Such draft as herein provided 
shall be based upon liability to military service of all male citizens, or male 
persons not alien enemies who have declared their intention to become citizens, 
between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclusive, and .shall 
take place and he maintained under such regulations as the President may 
prescribe not inconsistent with the terms of this act. Quotas for the several 
States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, or subdivisions thereof, shall 
be determined in proportion to the population thereof, and credit shall be 
given to any State, Territory, District, or subdivision thereof, for the number 
of men who were in the military service of the United States as members of 
the National Guard on April first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who 
have since said date entered the military service of the United States from 
any such State, Territory, District, or subdivision, either as members of the 
Regular Army or the National Guard. 

Sec. 12. Method and manner of making draft to he prescribed by 
later regulations. —A method, manner, time or times, and place or 
places will be prescribed by the President, by regulations to be here¬ 
after issued, for each local board to determine the order in which the 
persons, whose registration cards are within the jurisdiction of the 
respective local boards in accordance with the regulations herein 
prescribed, are liable to be called for military service by the respec¬ 
tive local boards to be physically examined, exempted, discharged, or 
finally to be accepted into the military service of the United States. 

Sec. 13. Determination of quotas to be furnished. —The quotas to 
be furnished by the respective local boards shall be determined in 


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accordance with said act of Congress and regulations to be hereafter 
prescribed by the President. The President will cause the quotas 
for the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia to be 
determined and notice thereof to be communicated to the governor of 
each State and Territory and to the Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia. The governor of each State and Territory and the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, acting for the Presi¬ 
dent, shall thereupon, in accordance with regulations to be here¬ 
after prescribed by the President, determine the quotas to be fur¬ 
nished by the several local boards within such State, Territory, or 
District from %e persons whose registration cards are within the 
jurisdiction of tlie respective local boards therein, and shall com¬ 
municate notice thereof to each local board within such State, Ter¬ 
ritory, or District. 

The quotas so determined shall be furnished by the respective 
local boards in the method, manner, and at the time or times and 
place or places prescribed by regulations hereafter to be issued by 
the President. 


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